Breaking DES

[J. Eric Townsend]

"Perry E. Metzger" writes:
 > My bogometer just triggered, so I decided to check your math.

As I said, I was off by a few orders of magnitude or so.
 > 
 > > (Cray C90, 1GW main memory, .5TB drive storage of various types, 9
 > > tape silos)
 > Gee, half a terrabyte. Thats 16,000 times less than you claimed.

The .5TB is *local* storage.  The 9 tape silos hold a couple of
terabytes, uncompressed.

 > what you claimed, and its over a million times less storage than you
 > would need, in *RAM*, for the proposed task.

Wouldn't need to be in RAM.  Would interleave the search in some banks
with loads of data into other banks.  Stream the damn thing.